The roots of extremism today, however, can be traced to ideas that began to appear in the eighteenth century in Arabia. The founder of Wahhabism, a particular orientation within Salafism, Muhammad…

It has always prided itself for that multiracial look.  Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com I REMEMBER reading a campaign flyer for the 1999 general election which said the BN is "forced" to combine…

Karpal Singh MCA deputy president, Datuk Dr. Wee Ka Siong, should not throw idle challenges requiring non-Muslim MPs in the DAP to state their stand on the private members bill proposed by PAS…

I believe Lee Kuan Yew is a brilliant politician and strategist. He first used the Communists and then he used Malaysia to gain independence from Britain. He then rounded up all the Communists and…

(MM) - “Service” as a word must have been mistranslated by Dewan Bahasa. I mean where else do you know, where if you complain about poor service, you are likely to get “If you don't like it, go…

Jeyaseelen Anthony, The Malaysian Insider  Karpal Singh’s conviction for sedition recently has thrown Malaysia back into the days of the Court of Star Chambers in the 17th century where people…

Salleh Said Keruak Lim Kit Siang said that Parliament should close down the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) since after spending RM300 million it is powerless to improve security in the…

I think I will just sit back and enjoy the show. It is so satisfying to be proven right. With Umno, PAS and the Malays in PKR, united in support of Hudud, and DAP, the non-Malays in PKR, MCA, MIC,…

The MH370 crisis has exposed the weaknesses of our public institutions and political leadership as nothing before it has done Narinder Singh, FMT The MH370 crisis will go down in history as…

Zaid Ibrahim When former New Straits Times top dog Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin described Dato’ Seri Najib Razak as “the Prime Minister with the worst performance in a general election since the May…

(TMI) - DAP, or Democratic Action Party, is still seen by many as a political organisation with a lot of Chinese leaders and members. Therefore, it is often perceived as a Chinese party.…

Karpal Singh The insistence by Kelantan Menteri Besar, Datuk Ahmad Yakob, that Kelantan will go ahead for PAS to move a private member’s bill in Parliament ‘to seek a declaration that the…

Are you all idiots or what? Why would I want to go back to Malaysia when I can remain here in the UK and watch movies about God committing genocide and killing more people in 40 days than the…

Gobind Singh Deo I call upon the Menteri Besar of Selangor, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, to respond to the memorandum against the proposed construction of the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway…

Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily As we tighten our belts and at the government's insistence look to change our lifestyle in the face of rising costs of living and shrinking subsidies, cronies or…

Salleh Said Keruak The kidnapping incident involving two women, including a Chinese tourist in Singamata Resort, Semporna late last Wednesday shocked the whole of Malaysia. Nobody expects a…

Ex-Convent Girl It’s April 4th and even as the grim task of underwater searches begin for the black box of MH370, Anwar Ibrahim is chatting up reporters of The Telegraph UK and Sky News,…

It is unconstitutional to use Act 750, as it was passed and gazetted two months after the legal requirement had lapsed Zainal Ajamain, FMT The Emergency Proclamation which was lifted on Nov…

PSM struggles on as a party for the marginalised as it holds fast to its socialist ideals K Pragalath, FMT With Malaysia moving towards a two-party system, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) is…

Melihat jiran membeli dua balang yang teramat sangat besar untuk menakung air menimbulkan persoalan di minda saya mengenai keberkesanan langkah kerajaan Selangor untuk mencatu air. Timmy Say,…

What the world told us can be seen in my UPR Map. Rest Stop Thoughts Malaysia's 2nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was conducted in Geneva on 25 October 2013. During the UPR Malaysia's…

The company cited as the vehicle for SUPP leader Peter Chin’s pre-election plan to build 15 Sarawak schools has categorically denied any involvement in the project. Sarawak Report The KL…

"1Malaysia" was never intended to cherish unity in diversities but meant to proselytize the whole nation into a single religion.  Kanul Gindol Chairman of UK-based Borneo Rights International…

Hawkeye There are times when we must all part and say our Good byes and cherish the many memories of the times we had shared together. There were many countless treasures of time and energies…

We need leaders of vision and leaders with a mission. I do not see that in both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat. And this is what worries me. We are living under the illusion that the cure to…

The Ant Daily ANALYSIS: Many find it amusing, even frustrating sometimes, to see the way the leaders in Sabah and Sarawak tackle the issue of oil royalty for the two states. It is a given…

In 1976, Malaysia asked Australia to investigate the plane crash which killed then CM Fuad Stephens and his cabinet. The result was kept a secret. Myles Togoh, FMT In a curious twist to the…

Once we shot the targets, they would, so to speak, be scarred for life. Nobody would want to go near them again Kee Thuan Chye Last night, I dreamed I was a member of a firing squad. We…

The abduction of a Chinese national in the pristine Singamata Reef Resort, off Semporna, Sabah, couldn’t have happened at a worse time for Malaysia. Wong Chun Wai, The Star IT couldn’t have…

Umno MPs do not oppose Kelantan’s bid to table two private Bills to pave the way for hudud law in Kelantan. But can PAS secure the support of component partners DAP and PKR? Joceline Tan, The…